One of the reasons I was keen to renew my Ancestry membership was because the organisation has just released a new collection of Masters and Mates certificates for Great Britain from 1850-1927, as sourced from The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

Some years ago I went to London to seek out the Register entries for my CUMPSTON relatives who were all Master Mariners. I was able to abstract all their register of sailing entries, including ships and dates. but never got to see their actual certificates – so what joy this evening to be able to download them. I found 2 certificates for my 2 x great grandfather Watson CUMPSTON – the first certificate showed him aged 24 born in 1833 in Hull, with a certificate of competency as ‘Only Mate’ dated 30th October 1857. The second dated 1861 was as a ‘Master’.http://www.cumpston.org.uk/#/watson-cumpston-hull/4533664557

The certificates are beautiful and well worth framing – but I now have so many – so maybe my Ancestry subscription has been worthwhile in its first day! These are the others I found there:

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Member of the Guild of One Name Studies researching the name CUMPSTON and its variants. You can see my website at www.cumpston.org.uk
I have a new study of the name LAXEN with its own blog at https://laxenresearch.wordpress.com/ and a further research blog which is not registered as a one name study of KNAGGS of Flamborough https://knaggsresearch.wordpress.com/